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Mykel Gordon

As is my usual modus operandi, on Sunday I pay tribute to someone who we should respect because of his/her unselfish action. Mykel Gordon is such a person … a hero, actually a hero X3. Each of these three individual situations would qualify Mykel Gordon as a hero.

#1

From CBS News:

Dramatic video shows a Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Chick-fil-A employee, Mykel Gordon, tackling a man who allegedly tried to carjack a woman with a baby. The suspect, identified as William Branch, was arrested by authorities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. 

Armed with a stick, Branch allegedly approached a woman in the parking lot outside of Chick-fil-A as she was getting a baby out of the car. He then demanded her keys, grabbed them from her waistband and tried to take the car, the sheriff’s office said. 

The Chick-fil-A employee, identified by the restaurant as Mykel Gordon, intervened after hearing the woman screaming. Part of the video of the encounter shows Gordon wrestling Branch to the ground and pinning him until more people show up to help. 

Sheriff’s deputies said Branch punched the employee in the face during the tussle. Neither woman was injured.

“A major shout-out to this young man for his courage!” the sheriff’s office wrote.

#2

Authorities said Gordon told deputies that Branch had been involved in another incident at the restaurant on Wednesday. A second incident report alleged that about 10 minutes before the attempted carjacking, Branch reached into another woman’s vehicle, unlocked the driver’s door and got into the car.

He then sat on top of the woman, “placing all of his bodyweight” on her, and told her to get out, according to the report. After the woman screamed for help, Gordon intervened and chased off Branch, the report said.

#3

From The Washington Post:

Wednesday’s incident was not the first time Gordon put himself in harm’s way to help someone while on the clock. In September 2018, while taking orders outside the Fort Walton Beach Chick-fil-A, Gordon was among the first to respond when a crane fell onto a car, the Northwest Florida Daily News reported. A teenage driver and her friend were inside.

Gordon told the paper that he dropped what he was doing and rushed to the girls’ vehicle, carrying one of them to safety. Other bystanders eventually assisted, and the group helped the other girl safely escape, the Daily News reported.

Back in 2018, Gordon said: “My step dad is a military man and I grew up doing what he was doing. When this happened I knew exactly what to do because of him. I thank God.”

So three times Mykel Gordon didn’t think of his own safety, but rather just reacted … a hero in triplicate!

9/18/22

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